Articles with the most “chatter”—from healthcare reform to medical errors, Zika, healthcare disparities and wearables—this list will help you pass the long winter evenings ahead--here are the top 100 articles in research journals for 2016.

On behalf of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH), I invite you to take advantage of our streamlined process for nominating 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year Medical Students and 2nd and 3rd year Family Medicine Residents and Faculty/Community Preceptors for the following awards:

Update: The goal of the DFMCH research task force is to establish a framework to best allow our department to perform innovative, cutting-edge primary care research that improves education, patient care and community health.

To better tie our research to the education we deliver, the research task force and Madison residency faculty and staff are developing a research pathway for second- and third-year residents to start in July 2017.

Although healthcare reform was not a dominant issue in the presidential campaign, it is now front and center with significant changes or a full repeal of Obamacare looming. What is known about President-elect Trump’s healthcare proposal and how can we counsel patients who have questions about their coverage?

To communicate the DFMCH ReCHARGED strategic planning process, we are introducing the “Charged Up” brief with implementation updates.

Background: As you remember, each task force developed a proposal that described their issue, reviewed best practices and advocated for a particular strategy or strategies for DFMCH. As implementation moves forward, we will be requesting updates from the implementation teams and sharing them with you. Read more... »

We hope you are able to join us for the third session of “It Starts With Me: Conversations about Identity, Privilege and Intersectionality.”

We will be in the Wingra Clinic Bay Creek Conference Room, Nov 3, 2016 (12:30 – 1:30PM), but again we will have video conferencing available. Please let Ann Schensky know as soon as possible if you would like your site to participate so we can set it up. Read more... »

Thanks to those of you who were able to join us for our second session “It Starts With Me: Conversations about Identity, Privilege and Intersectionality.” If you missed this event you may find the material at https://inside.fammed.wisc.edu/2020-diversity-initiative. As a follow up to our discussions this month, think about the following: